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2009 • PG-13 • 2h 1m • Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller • Summit Entertainment

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2.74

6.2

Box office summary

Opening weekend

$24.60M

3-day opening

Domestic total

$80.00M

Final

Worldwide total

$186.00M

$106.00M international

Domestic legs3.25x

Budget$50.0M

2009 rank#39

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Cast & crew

Full Proyas filmography

Alex Proyas

Alex Proyas Director

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage Starring

Rose Byrne

Rose Byrne Starring

Ben Mendelsohn

Ben Mendelsohn Starring

ScreenplayRyne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White Produced byAlex Proyas, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch CinematographySimon Duggan MusicMarco Beltrami Prod. DesignSteven Jones-Evans StudioSummit Entertainment

The run

WkWeekendRankGrossChgTheatersAvgTotal

1 Mar 20-22 1 $24.6M — 3,332 $7,384 $24.6M

2 Mar 27-29 3 $14.7M −40.2% 3,337 $4,405 $46.2M

3 Apr 3-5 4 $8.1M −44.6% 3,323 $2,451 $58.2M

4 Apr 10-12 5 $6.4M −21.0% 2,925 $2,199 $67.8M

5 Apr 17-19 8 $3.6M −44.4% 2,405 $1,486 $73.8M

6 Apr 24-26 12 $1.9M −45.6% 1,860 $1,044 $76.8M

7 May 1-3 15 $568.1K −70.8% 822 $691 $77.9M

8 May 8-10 16 $303.3K −46.6% 373 $813 $78.4M

9 May 15-17 18 $337.0K +11.1% 421 $800 $78.8M

10 May 22-24 22 $195.3K −42.0% 264 $739 $79.2M

11 May 29-31 28 $127.9K −34.5% 195 $656 $79.4M

12 Jun 5-7 29 $93.0K −27.3% 152 $612 $79.5M

13 Jun 12-14 34 $73.6K −20.9% 122 $602 $79.7M

14 Jun 19-21 30 $99.1K +34.8% 115 $862 $79.8M

DateRankGrossDailyWeeklyTotalTheatersAvgDay

Fri Mar 20 #1 $9.0M — $9.0M 3,332 $2,692 1

Sat Mar 21 #1 $9.9M +10% $18.8M 3,332 $2,963 2

Sun Mar 22 #1 $5.8M −42% $24.6M 3,332 $1,729 3

Mon Mar 23 #1 $1.8M −68% $26.4M 3,332 $546 4

Tue Mar 24 #1 $1.9M +2% $28.3M 3,332 $557 5

Wed Mar 25 #1 $1.6M −15% $29.9M 3,332 $476 6

Thu Mar 26 #1 $1.6M +4% $31.5M 3,332 $493 7

Fri Mar 27 #3 $4.6M +180% −49% $36.1M 3,337 $1,380 8

Sat Mar 28 #3 $6.4M +38% −36% $42.5M 3,337 $1,905 9

Sun Mar 29 #3 $3.7M −41% −35% $46.2M 3,337 $1,119 10

Mon Mar 30 #4 $966.1K −74% −47% $47.2M 3,337 $289 11

Tue Mar 31 #4 $1.1M +9% −43% $48.2M 3,337 $314 12

Wed Apr 1 #4 $899.6K −14% −43% $49.1M 3,337 $269 13

Thu Apr 2 #4 $940.2K +5% −43% $50.1M 3,337 $281 14

Fri Apr 3 #4 $2.8M +193% −40% $52.8M 3,323 $827 15

Sat Apr 4 #4 $3.4M +25% −46% $56.3M 3,323 $1,034 16

Sun Apr 5 #3 $2.0M −43% −48% $58.2M 3,323 $588 17

Mon Apr 6 #5 $661.5K −66% −32% $58.9M 3,323 $199 18

Tue Apr 7 #5 $800.4K +21% −24% $59.7M 3,323 $240 19

Wed Apr 8 #5 $737.7K −8% −18% $60.4M 3,323 $221 20

Thu Apr 9 #5 $916.7K +24% −2% $61.3M 3,323 $275 21

Fri Apr 10 #6 $2.3M +154% −15% $63.7M 2,925 $794 22

Sat Apr 11 #5 $2.6M +10% −26% $66.2M 2,925 $875 23

Sun Apr 12 #5 $1.5M −40% −21% $67.8M 2,925 $528 24

Mon Apr 13 #5 $725.9K −53% +10% $68.5M 2,925 $248 25

Tue Apr 14 #5 $648.2K −11% −19% $69.1M 2,925 $221 26

Wed Apr 15 #5 $546.8K −16% −26% $69.7M 2,925 $186 27

Thu Apr 16 #6 $530.1K −3% −42% $70.2M 2,925 $181 28

Fri Apr 17 #8 $1.1M +108% −53% $71.3M 2,405 $457 29

Sat Apr 18 #8 $1.6M +41% −39% $72.9M 2,405 $645 30

Sun Apr 19 #8 $923.2K −40% −40% $73.8M 2,405 $383 31

Mon Apr 20 #9 $265.6K −71% −63% $74.1M 2,405 $110 32

Tue Apr 21 #9 $292.5K +10% −55% $74.4M 2,405 $121 33

Wed Apr 22 #10 $243.9K −17% −55% $74.6M 2,405 $101 34

Thu Apr 23 #10 $240.1K −2% −55% $74.8M 2,405 $99 35

Fri Apr 24 #12 $569.9K +137% −48% $75.4M 1,860 $306 36

Sat Apr 25 #11 $876.9K +54% −43% $76.3M 1,860 $471 37

Sun Apr 26 #12 $496.3K −43% −46% $76.8M 1,860 $266 38

Mon Apr 27 #13 $136.0K −73% −49% $76.9M 1,860 $73 39

Tue Apr 28 #13 $158.3K +16% −46% $77.1M 1,860 $85 40

Wed Apr 29 #13 $148.2K −6% −39% $77.2M 1,860 $79 41

Thu Apr 30 #13 $141.8K −4% −41% $77.4M 1,860 $76 42

Fri May 1 #15 $167.6K +18% −71% $77.5M 822 $203 43

Sat May 2 #15 $255.6K +53% −71% $77.8M 822 $310 44

Sun May 3 #16 $144.9K −43% −71% $77.9M 822 $176 45

Mon May 4 $41.7K −71% −69% $78.0M 822 $50 46

Tue May 5 $44.0K +6% −72% $78.0M 822 $53 47

Wed May 6 $44.8K +2% −70% $78.1M 822 $54 48

Thu May 7 $35.0K −22% −75% $78.1M 822 $42 49

Fri May 8 $87.0K +149% −48% $78.2M 373 $233 50

Sat May 9 $126.5K +45% −51% $78.3M 373 $339 51

Sun May 10 $89.8K −29% −38% $78.4M 373 $240 52

Mon May 11 $23.6K −74% −43% $78.4M 373 $63 53

Tue May 12 $26.2K +11% −40% $78.5M 373 $70 54

Wed May 13 $23.5K −10% −47% $78.5M 373 $63 55

Thu May 14 $24.5K +4% −30% $78.5M 373 $65 56

Fri May 15 $95.7K +291% +10% $78.6M 421 $227 57

Sat May 16 $153.8K +61% +22% $78.7M 421 $365 58

Sun May 17 $87.4K −43% −3% $78.8M 421 $207 59

Mon May 18 $37.6K −57% +59% $78.9M 421 $89 60

Tue May 19 $35.7K −5% +36% $78.9M 421 $84 61

Wed May 20 $33.7K −6% +43% $78.9M 421 $80 62

Thu May 21 $27.2K −19% +11% $79.0M 421 $64 63

Fri May 22 $50.8K +87% −47% $79.0M 264 $192 64

Sat May 23 $74.3K +46% −52% $79.1M 264 $281 65

Sun May 24 $70.2K −6% −20% $79.2M 264 $265 66

Mon May 25 #26 $43.6K −38% +16% $79.2M 264 $165 67

Tue May 26 $18.7K −57% −48% $79.2M 264 $70 68

Wed May 27 $17.6K −6% −48% $79.2M 264 $66 69

Thu May 28 $21.2K +20% −22% $79.3M 264 $80 70

Fri May 29 $38.0K +80% −25% $79.3M 195 $194 71

Sat May 30 $57.4K +51% −23% $79.4M 195 $294 72

Sun May 31 $32.5K −43% −54% $79.4M 195 $166 73

Mon Jun 1 $12.0K −63% −73% $79.4M 195 $61 74

Tue Jun 2 $14.5K +21% −22% $79.4M 195 $74 75

Wed Jun 3 $15.3K +6% −13% $79.4M 195 $78 76

Thu Jun 4 $15.2K −1% −28% $79.5M 195 $77 77

Fri Jun 5 $32.0K +111% −16% $79.5M 152 $210 78

Sat Jun 6 $36.2K +13% −37% $79.5M 152 $238 79

Sun Jun 7 $24.8K −31% −24% $79.5M 152 $163 80

Mon Jun 8 $11.7K −53% −2% $79.6M 152 $77 81

Tue Jun 9 $12.8K +9% −12% $79.6M 152 $84 82

Wed Jun 10 $13.7K +7% −11% $79.6M 152 $89 83

Thu Jun 11 $17.8K +30% +17% $79.6M 152 $116 84

Fri Jun 12 $22.2K +25% −31% $79.6M 122 $181 85

Sat Jun 13 $32.0K +44% −12% $79.7M 122 $261 86

Sun Jun 14 $19.4K −39% −22% $79.7M 122 $159 87

Mon Jun 15 $9.8K −49% −16% $79.7M 122 $80 88

Tue Jun 16 $10.7K +9% −16% $79.7M 122 $88 89

Wed Jun 17 $10.8K +1% −21% $79.7M 122 $88 90

Thu Jun 18 $14.9K +37% −16% $79.7M 122 $121 91

Fri Jun 19 $31.4K +111% +42% $79.8M 115 $272 92

Sat Jun 20 $39.8K +27% +25% $79.8M 115 $346 93

Sun Jun 21 $27.9K −30% +44% $79.8M 115 $242 94

Mon Jun 22 $15.6K −44% +58% $79.8M 115 $135 95

Tue Jun 23 $16.1K +3% +50% $79.9M 115 $139 96

Wed Jun 24 $13.5K −16% +25% $79.9M 115 $117 97

Thu Jun 25 $11.5K −15% −23% $79.9M 115 $99 98

Fri Jun 26 $10.8K −6% −65% $79.9M 57 $190 99

Sat Jun 27 $14.2K +31% −64% $79.9M 57 $249 100

Sun Jun 28 $10.2K −28% −63% $79.9M 57 $179 101

Mon Jun 29 $4.8K −53% −69% $79.9M 57 $83 102

Tue Jun 30 $6.9K +45% −57% $79.9M 57 $121 103

Wed Jul 1 $4.7K −32% −65% $79.9M 57 $82 104

Thu Jul 2 $5.4K +14% −53% $79.9M 57 $93 105

Fri Jul 3 $4.6K −13% −57% $79.9M 24 $193 106

Sat Jul 4 $4.9K +5% −66% $79.9M 24 $203 107

Sun Jul 5 $4.9K +1% −52% $79.9M 24 $205 108

Mon Jul 6 $2.7K −45% −43% $80.0M 24 $113 109

Tue Jul 7 $2.7K −3% −62% $80.0M 24 $110 110

Wed Jul 8 $2.1K −19% −54% $80.0M 24 $89 111

Thu Jul 9 $2.0K −7% −63% $80.0M 24 $83 112

Charts show the first 10 weeks · the run above is the full record

Cumulative total$79.3M

Mar 20Apr 6Apr 24May 11May 28

Weekend grossWk 10 · $195.3K

$24.6M

$14.7M

$8.1M

$6.4M

$3.6M

$1.9M

$568.1K

$303.3K

$337.0K

$195.3K

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10

Theater countPeak 3,337 → 264 −92.1%

3,332 open264 now

Weekend-over-weekend dropWk 10 · −42.0%

−40.2%

W1→2

−44.6%

W2→3

−21.0%

W3→4

−44.4%

W4→5

−45.6%

W5→6

−70.8%

W6→7

−46.6%

W7→8

+11.1%

W8→9

−42.0%

W9→10

Steepest −70.8%Biggest gain +11.1%

Profitability

Return on Budget

Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

Domestic vs International Split

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